Fall 2005

• Students in Lauren Heath's section of MART 371, The Moving Image, will have their documentary work on domestic violence screened at the "Be the Voice in the Dark" Exhibition on October 31, 2005, 7-9pm, at the Russell House on the USC campus. The exhibition is sponsored by USC's Office for Sexual Health and Violence Prevention.

• Students involved in Refried Films are in production this fall on a number of projects. Check out their website to find out the latest.

• The Orphan Film Symposium is seeking several Media Arts students to produce video, audio, web media and digital photographs of the symposium in Spring 2006. For more information, or to sign up, email Professor Kissel or Professor Streible. [posted 8-30-05]

• The Gregory Eliot Hart Screenwriting Contest is in its second year. Scripts will be due by December 7, 2005. Winners script(s) will be produced in the spring 2006 film and audio production courses (MART 551 and MART 542) Good luck! Download application instructions here.

• Congratulations to undergraduate students • Congratulations to the REFRIED FILMS student production group : their organization was granted $2,000 to use towards students productions for 2005-2006.

• Congratulations to the winners (we had a tie!) of the Gregory Eliot Hart Screenwriting Contest: Jason Steelman for "The Tendered" and Donna Clark for "Long Life." Students in the film production course this semester, taught by Prof. Heidi Mehltretter, are hard at work producing these two films. The final screening is scheduled for Friday May 6, at the Nickelodeon Theater, 12noon. Admission is free.

• Student produced documentaries in the course Tales of the Tidelands were screened at the McKissick Museum on April 6, 2005.

2005 - 2006

• Congratulations to Erin Curtis and James Smith, who received an Award of Excellence in Electronic Media from the National School Public Relations Association in 2005 for their promotional documentary for Oak Grove Elementary School in Lexington, SC.

• Dayton Colie's film Catnap was accepted into the Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2005. His film was produced in Professor Heidi Mehltretter's 16mm Film Production course in Spring 2005.

2004 - 2005
• Congratulations to Media Arts students Rukiya Hite and Dennis Nichols, whose documentary video, "Uprooted," about a search for the many meanings of "Gullah," has been accepted by SCETV for broadcast on their program Southern Lens. Please join us for a screening of "Uprooted" and other student documentaries about the landscape and people of Georgetown, South Carolina.   Documentaries to be screened were produced in an interdisciplinary, research-based learning course (Environmental History and Documentary Production) in Fall 2004.

Tales of the Tidelands:   Documentaries about the Carolina Coast
Wed. April 6, 2005
5-6 pm
McKissick Museum
reception to follow the screening

• John Ford's independent film production, "7 over 8," was screened in the narrative film competition at Internacional de Escuelas de Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October 2004.

2003-2004
Adam Habib's ('04)short documentary video, Food on Sundays, produced in The Moving Image summer 2003, was screened at the Urban Realism Film Festival, January 17, 2004, sponsored by the Nickelodeon Theater and Columbia Museum of Art.

Greg Hart ('04) and Brad Carroll ('04), winners of the First Annual Screenwriting competition. Greg and Brad will have their short films produced in the spring 2004 Media Arts Film Production II and Advanced Audio for Media classes. The final films will be screened at the Nickelodeon Theater on Friday, May 7, 2004, 12 noon. Free!

Lauren Heath ('03) traveled with a USC research team up the Lena River in Russia as their visual documentarian. She shot hundreds of hours of video, photographs, and wrote about her experiences. Some of Lauren's work can be viewed on the Carolinian website.

Media Arts film students Thomas Franks ('03), Angelique Gibson ('03), Andrew Cady ('03), Joshua Burack ('04)and Anthony Vogeltanz's ('03) film Developments, produced in 16mm Film Production I, was accepted into the Kalamazoo Short Film and Video Festival where it won BEST SHORT NARRATIVE.

Art Department home of the Media Arts program at the University of South Carolina

Film Studies Program at the University of South Carolina

Orphan Film Symposium email streible@gwm.sc.edu or laura@sc.edu to volunteer for Orphans 5, March 22-25, 2006.

more USC student video work online streaming media

Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers join!

University Film and Video Association yearly film/video production grants available for students

Kodak's Student Filmmaker program lots of great info for the aspiring filmmaker

Withoutabox.com Film festival submission system

Independent Lens broadcasting work by independent media artists each week

Archive.org view and/or make movies with archival film that you can download for free

Refried Films
student film production group at University of South Carolina
contact: Jason Steelman, President
refried@gwm.sc.edu
web.sa.sc.edu/refried

Nickelodeon Theater
screening foreign and independent films and site of the touring Southern Circuit Film Festival
www.nickelodeon.org

Orphan Film Symposium
University of South Carolina's international film symposium
www.sc.edu/symposium

last updated: 10/24/2005